You see, that second option has something going for it too. Doing a search at Twitter for “Friendfeed+Feedburner” right now shows that a lot of people assume that Google simply pulled the plug from Friendfeed.

Yes, in case you missed that one, Google owns Feedburner. But why would they pull the plug?

I think it would be a huge faux pas on Google’s part if they did that and wouldn’t rhyme well with their ‘Don’t do evil’ mantra. But stranger things have happened so we will ask around and report back to you when we have more details.

Until then, we are going to assume it is just a temporary hiccup over at Feedburner.

UPDATED: Feedburner has posted a message on their blog explaining that there is indeed an error at Friendfeed. They ARE talking to Friendfeed about it. The message in full:

Issue: We are working with FriendFeed to determine why subscriber totals from this service are not available in the most recent daily subscriber counts reported for FeedBurner feeds. We will update this post with any status changes and resolution.

You see? Nothing is wrong there is just something wrong. Or, as one of our comments said: it is just “normal buggy behavior”.

Boris is CEO and co-founder of TNW. He's also a serial entrepreneur who founded not only TNW but also V3 Redirect Services (sold), HubHop Wireless Internet Provider (sold), Twitter Counter and several other companies including Mila and pr.co. Boris is very active on Twitter as @Boris and on Snapchat as borisvvz.